UCSD ESYS 10 Introduction to Environmental Systems
Winter 2006
January 10
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Handouts: Preview
questionnaire
Reading: Chapter
1 Kump, Casting and Crane
Problems due Tuesday Jan. 17: Chapter 1 #1, 4, 8,
9 (Please scan the others as a way
of studying the material in the chapter.)
Topics:
Course expectations and the syllabus
Pre-survey and opinion polls
What do American's think about environmental issues?
Harris
poll results on environmental standards (2005)
Harris
poll results on global warming (2002: nothing more recent)
ABC News
Poll on the Kyoto Protocol (2001)
What do you already know about global warming?
Environmental News
Network: Test Your Environmental Knowledge
Other
links:
United Nations Environment Program
U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency: climate site
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
Figure in
lecture from Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change
Color
version of this figure from the U.S.
Climate Change Science Plan
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